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I've just found a very interesting project about visualization of volumetric structures in the Universe. May it be possible to make something similar in Celestia? Scientists like to show their efforts to wider publicity, so who knows, may it be possible to receive scientific data or even real 3D models of these structures?

A few links:

Press release:

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/pr0707.html

Images:

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/pr0707image.html
http://astromed.iic.harvard.edu/images

Movies are really impressive and give a sample how such kind of extension could look like:

http://astromed.iic.harvard.edu/movies

Main site of the project:

http://astromed.iic.harvard.edu/

Hope it will be interesting for you.

I think Chris should be the one to contact this team to see if something can be done... (only him could answer some eventual technical question...)

Here is another very interesting project about volumetric structures.

It's aimed at 3d in general and actually a new part of the jpeg 2000 format. (It's actually just like the first project mentioned in the first post in this thread, still in beta stage.)

It's called jp3d and aiming for an ISO standard (read that on wikipedia).

http://www.2kan.org/jp3d.html

Hopefully this could be implemented in the future, but this won't be anytime soon.
(jp3d would be a very good format because jpeg is already very well known)